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FRED Categories Connector for AI agents.

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Navigate the St. Louis Fed's economic data library to find specific financial indicators.

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Why people use FRED Categories

FRED Categories for Navigating Economic Data Taxonomies

This Connector lets your agent do that heavy lifting for you. It treats the FRED database like a searchable tree. Instead of clicking, you just tell your agent what topic you're interested in, and it handles the navigation to find the right data points.

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What Vinkius changes

You get the exact economic data series you need without having to manually search the FRED website.

Use it from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or another AI client you already have.

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  1. Real-world use case 01

    Finding specific inflation series

    A researcher needs to find all inflation-related series in the Prices category.

  2. Real-world use case 02

    Exploring interest rate options

    An analyst wants to see what kind of interest rate data is available.

  3. Real-world use case 03

    Checking data dimensions

    A data scientist needs to know if a category supports monthly data.

Complete set · 4capabilities

The complete FRED Categories capability set.

These are the exact actions your AI can choose when you ask it to work with FRED Categories.

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4 capabilities in this set.

Part of 4 available through FRED Categories.

  1. 01 Capability

    Get category

    Look up a specific category by its ID to see its name and details. This is useful for confirming you are looking at the right section of the economic database.

  2. 02 Capability

    Get category tags

    Get the available tags for a category to see what filters you can use. This helps you understand the different dimensions of the data before you start pulling it.

  3. 03 Capability

    Get category children

    Find all subcategories under a parent category to explore the data tree. It is the primary way to discover what data is available in a specific domain like labor or prices.

  4. 04 Capability

    Get category series

    List every series in a category with filters for frequency, units, and tags. This lets you pull the exact data points you need for your analysis while ignoring the rest.

Set up in minutes

One URL. Then ask FRED Categories to work.

Claude and ChatGPT only need the Connector URL. Copy it once, add it in settings, and use FRED Categories from the conversation.

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  1. Step 01

    Open Connectors

    In Claude Web or Claude Desktop, open Settings and choose Connectors.

  2. Step 02

    Add the URL

    Choose Add custom connector, name it FRED Categories, and paste the URL above.

  3. Step 03

    Turn it on in chat

    Select +, open Connectors, and enable FRED Categories for the conversation.

Where the request belongs

Work FRED can move forward.

Built around the request

This is for researchers, financial analysts, and data scientists who need to pull macro data but hate the manual process of navigating complex government databases.

01

Macroeconomist

Finds specific inflation or GDP sub-series for research papers without manually clicking through nested menus.

02

Financial Analyst

Pulls interest rate trends and banking data for portfolio reports by exploring the taxonomy tree.

03

Data Scientist

Maps out the FRED taxonomy to build automated data pipelines for economic indicators.

04

Policy Researcher

Identifies regional data points to support local economic reports using tag filters.

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FRED Tags & Sources — Data Discovery

Discover FRED series through intelligent tagging: search tags like 'gdp', 'inflation', 'monthly', combine multiple tags to find exactly the right series, and explore all 107 official data sources from BLS to the Census Bureau.

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The ultimate U.S. economic data Mega-Server: 19 capabilities covering time series, releases, categories, regional GeoFRED data, tags, and 107 data sources. 816,000+ series from the Federal Reserve in one integration.

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03 5 capabilities

FRED Series — U.S. Economic Time Series

Search and retrieve data from 816,000+ official U.S. economic time series: GDP, inflation, unemployment, interest rates, money supply. with built-in transformations, frequency aggregation, and vintage analysis.

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Access global economic data. audit social and fiscal series via AI.

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05 4 capabilities

FRED Releases — Economic Calendar

Track every U.S. economic data release: Employment Situation, GDP Advance, CPI, Federal Funds Rate, and hundreds more. with release schedules, historical dates, and the complete series within each release.

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Before you connect

Questions about FRED.

The practical details behind the request, access and result.

Can the FRED Categories MCP find specific series for me?

Yes, it helps your agent navigate the hierarchy to find the exact data points you need without you having to search the website manually.

Is this Connector good for finding inflation data?

Yes, it lets your agent browse the Prices category to find all relevant inflation series and filter them by frequency or units.

How does this help with macroeconomics research?

It automates the discovery of economic indicators, making it much faster to identify relevant data for research papers and reports.

Can I use this to see what categories exist in FRED?

Yes, it can list all top-level domains like Production, Business, and International data so you can see the full scope of the database.

Will this help me filter data by frequency?

Yes, it allows your agent to check tags and filter series by units and frequency, ensuring you get the specific data format you need.

Do I need to know the FRED IDs to use this?

No, you can start from the root and let the agent discover the IDs as it drills down into the categories you describe.

How is FRED organized?

FRED uses a hierarchical tree of categories. The root (ID 0) branches into 8 domains like Money & Banking, Employment, and Prices. Each domain subdivides into hundreds of subcategories, each containing related series. Start from root and drill down to discover data.

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